There was a description of Chi (Qi) lines that caught my attention where it basically said there is energy everywhere, we just need to reach out and grab it.  I’m not going to be disrespectful and pretend I understand everything about that type of energy, but something clicked about my relationship with source and managing how I want to feel, how I want to use energy.  I’ve been doing a lot more focused spiritual work and I’ve realized that life and spirituality is an amalgamation, an alchemy, of a lot of things: energy, physics, nature, source/God, the body, understanding the elements, respecting timing, etc.  Without putting these things together, we have a half truth, not true understanding of the nature of the universe.  But with practice, we can see how it all comes together.  We’ve been so fixated on domination and proving what we know, feeling and exerting our power that we’ve forgotten what real power there is in connection to this type of energy. 

Control is an illusion.  Well, control of the outside is an illusion.  We’ve bought into a system, a beautifully designed guise telling us we have our freedom when we do the same thing every day and all we do is feed a system, creating wealth for the few while the rest of us do the work.  We live in distraction, waiting for the next time we are “allowed” to focus on what matters to us.  We believe that is free when our soul knows it’s looking for all of these other things to fulfill it.  Our body, mind, heart, and soul all want us working in the depths of what we feel, in the timing of the universe, not trying to find time to make our true nature work.  We need to BE our true nature.  It’s when we are connected to our true nature that this alchemy can begin and the magic happens. 

Magic, at its core is about presence and connection.  When we are present and connected to our true nature, we feel and see differently.  We understand differently.  Letting go of the illusions and ignoring the distractions we face becomes easy.  We understand what is truly important and how to do that work instead of what we are told to do.  We learn to feed ourselves and nourish our own systems instead of the systems we are told create freedom and give equity to people.  We forget we are wild, we forget we are animals, part of nature and that we have gifts and are meant to work with them.  To work with our hands and create.  To be in nature’s time, not our own.  To judge our success by how we feel and what we create and not how much we consume or show off.  If we give up the idea of things needing to be a certain way and change our viewpoint of what life is, what success is, what we need to create, the entire view shifts.  THAT is magic.